Richard Hull

Richard Hull was born **Richard Henry Sampson** in London on 6 September 1896 to Nina Hull and SA Sampson, and attended Rugby School, Warwickshire. When the First World War broke out, his uncle helped him secure a commission in the Queen Victoria's Rifles. At the end of the war, after three years in France, he returned to England and worked as an accountant. His first book, *The Murder of My Aunt,* written under the pseudonym Richard Hull, was published in …